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Welcome to the Pop Culture Junkie podcast. I'm Nicole here with my fellow Junkies.
Olivia
It's Shauna.
[Laughter]
Guys, how have you guys been?
Good.
Just insanely busy but good. Like, it's all fun busy stuff.
I'm going to vent planner professionally, so I have that going on, but then I'm planning all these events
in my personal life now too, and it's all just compounding. There's so many self-spread
sheets in my life right now, but they're all going to be fun as long as I don't, you know,
no pressure. It's just my entire career and my best friends, you know, bachelor at my
shoulders. It's fine. It's fine. How are you guys?
It's just going to all come crashing down if I don't get a perfectly done.
I'm just not going to have friends or job anymore, but it's going to be okay.
Yeah, you'll crush it. You'll figure it out.
Last minute just had to fly to Miami for a work thing. It is quite wet here, but, you know, having a good time.
I'm going to try to sneak away to the beach. I haven't really had an opportunity to yet, but we'll see if we get some
pleasure out of it. I'm trying to go to my friends who does drag out here his show on Thursday night
before I leave on Friday. So hopefully I get to go to that and get to go to a Miami drag show.
I've always wanted to go to Miami. I've been to Florida so many times and I've never been to Miami.
I've just never really had like a reason to, but I think there needs to be like a girls trip or something.
I don't know. It seems fun. Wet and pleasurable, apparently.
You guys can come on my next trip. Oh my gosh. You go and you go for work and then me and Nicole will just hang out at the beach.
You'll be like, "Have fun, live, bye girl." Yeah. Sounds like fun to me.
Have you been Nicole? I've been good. Been super busy. Have a new job coming up here soon.
Yes. So just been getting all my last minute stuff together for that, but been good.
Trying to still keep up on pop culture stuff though. Obviously. We gotta get the people what they want.
I know. A few of our favorite shows have come out, so I couldn't try to keep up on that.
Yeah. What's everyone been obsessed with lately? What's everyone not to?
I have been obsessed with only murders in building season three has finally come out.
Oh gosh. I am in love with Paul Rudd. He is handsome. Handsome handsome.
But season three has such a good cast. You have Meryl Streep, Paul Rudd.
You have, I'm blinking on his name, but he is Jesse Williams.
Yes. Jesse Williams. Yeah.
But oh my gosh. The cast is so good this season. It's crazy. Super good.
I'm highly, highly excited for the season to finally be here. I've been waiting ever since I've finished season two.
I agree. I'm really enjoying it. The show is just so funny and it's so easy to just sit down and pop on an episode and Steve Martin and Martin Short are just hilarious.
I won't spoil anything, but I watched episode last night and I was just giggling the entire time. Just giggling. It's so good.
Yeah, definitely gonna pop that one too. But anyone hasn't caught that yet.
I only got half of my third season one. Should I give her another chance?
What? Yes, you should. You don't even know who the murderer was in season one then.
No. You're missing out. You are missing out.
No, apparently. Do you remember it all? Do you remember anything about it? No. No.
Okay. No. I want to get the story over. That's fair.
It was Colonel Sanders in the library. The library.
The library.
The grandster. The grandster. The grandster.
Damn, she figured it out.
But I did know that car Deleving joined since season two and that peaked my interest.
Yes, but you know how I am about Selena. I'm like, "I know. I know."
I like Selena Gomez.
Olivia, like, do you see this about your girl, Selena? And it's like shady shit.
And I'm like, "You like her, don't you?" I don't even know what it was. And I was just like, "Yeah, I do. I do like her."
Yeah, I just hate fake victimist stuff. She's like, "Oh, I'm so above this drama. Starts drama."
She made this video. That was like, "I'm leaving my wife for you."
I saw that. I saw that.
Yeah. And everyone's like, "Oh, she's starting it up again."
Oh, my God. First of all, that is a quote from season one, Sex in the City.
And it's Samantha Jones on the phone.
I know. I know.
Yes. Speaking of Samantha Jones. Oh, my God.
Okay. So this podcast is now two things. It is a stand account for the bear on Hulu.
And it's also a stand account for, and just like that, because I know that I've talked about this show in the past
in what a fucking train record is. But I am obsessed. And I'm so glad it was renewed for season three.
By the time this comes out, we'll know how this goes down. But the season finale is coming up.
And finally, Samantha Jones is going to be on screen for the first time this season.
And it's going to be just a phone call between her and Carrie.
And then it cuts to Samantha on the phone and wherever she is.
I think, oh, France, last time we saw her. But I don't know.
Now that it was announced for season three, my fingers are crossed that Kim control might come back.
But I don't think they can get past their beef on that cast.
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
I saw this clip of whatever's going on in just like that with Karen Samantha's beef,
which is like, I thought I was more than money to her.
And it's like, Carrie, do you not remember the millions of times where Samantha would give you free PR services
and like, do all these things for you all the time.
And now you're just like some revisionist history because your rich husband died.
Yeah. I know. Carrie is still being Carrie.
She definitely like invites Miranda to this fabulous dinner party and then also invites Miranda's ex partner to the same dinner party.
And doesn't understand why Miranda's like, I really don't want to go to this.
You're missing a very critical part of that where Miranda gets like roasted by Che on stage at a comedy thing.
Yeah. Like straight up, chase, straight up roasts Miranda and Miranda's there.
And still Carrie doesn't, first of all, okay, leave.
If like, she'll leave.
Yeah. My friend of like 30 years is being roasted on stage and storms out.
I'm going with my girl, right?
And then I'm inviting somebody. I don't know.
But it's for the drama. It's for the plot.
Yeah. The other thing that I mentioned that I'm obsessed with right now is the bear.
It is a show on FX/Hulu. I'm watching it on Hulu.
And it's two seasons long. It is incredible.
I feel like I'm late to the game with this one.
It is about a young man whose brother commits suicide.
That's not spoiler. It's pretty early in the show.
And leaves him this kind of failing restaurant in his will.
The brother played by Jeremy Allen White, the main character,
is a Michelin star chef who absolutely is right for Jeremy Allen White.
Oh my god. He's so handsome.
He's so fine. Yeah.
He's so fine.
He's like fine and like not in a conventionally fine kind of way.
Like he's kind of weird looking and I love it.
I love a big prominent guy.
I think he's so hot in Chameless.
I'm still like, the bear is on my list.
Only murderers in the building was not on my list, but the bear is on my list.
And everyone I know knows that I was like obsessed with him from Chameless.
So they always like send me stuff.
And I'm like, he is a real buff daddy now.
And he's really getting thirsty.
Yes. He's so buff in this show.
But he's so busy all the time.
Like his name is Carmi slash his nickname's bear.
All he does is work.
And so my husband will lean over and be like, when does he have time to work out?
He'll be like just sitting there smoking in his biceps.
Just bulging and we're like, when the fuck did he get that pump?
When did he get that bicep? All he does is work.
It's stirring pots.
Yeah.
Just like his tell Andrew to get in the kitchen and he might figure it out.
He might find this a cake.
And then maybe he'll be put into it.
Just kidding my husband's actually.
Yes, chef.
Yes. Corner.
Behind everything.
Going on like corner. Corner. Behind.
Yes, chef.
Heard.
You worked at a restaurant.
Is yelling corner new to you?
I mean no, but like I worked at sports bars.
We weren't back there making that.
We were making beer sheets.
So we never called each other chef.
Okay. And then the last thing I'm obsessed with and I'm sorry.
And then I can shut up.
I've just been watching so much content.
I saw Blue Beetle, which is the new DC movie.
It stars Sholo Mariduña.
He is the actor who's the main character from Cobra Kai.
And his little career is taking up now and I'm so proud of him.
Blue Beetle is a really cute film.
He's the first Latino superhero to have his own movie,
which is insane that it took that long.
The movie has a really good cast too.
George Lopez, Susan Sarandon is in it.
And it's really just about Latino culture and family and just goofiness.
It's got a lot of heart.
It was funny.
I'm going to pop it.
I don't know if it's going to be part of James Guns DC Universe going forward
because he's just kind of imploding the whole thing and trying to put it back together.
I don't know.
But in the meantime, check out DC Comics Blue Beetle.
Muy bien.
I can't believe that's the first or Latina superhero.
It's not insane.
Like, to be in a movie anyway.
So Andrew pointed out there's been a moon night with Oscar Isaac was on Disney plot.
I did see that one.
I was it.
Yeah, that was a TV show.
And then the new "Splot Panther" movie had a Latino villain who hopefully gets her
redemption story because I want him to stick around because...
But yeah, this is the first Latino-led superhero movie.
All right.
I'm done.
That's it.
I've watched other things but I'm not going to talk about them.
Okay, actually, I'm just going to go.
What are you obsessed with Olivia?
So I took the rainy weather in Phoenix and got very inspired on my plane ride to another
very rainy place to watch Twilight.
And since it's about a five hour flight from Phoenix to Miami,
I watched the first two and it's like so bad it's good.
I always make the joke that I can only watch Twilight when I'm insanely hungover because
like my brain is actually at the level of like the storyline.
And like, it's a great movie when you're like, you got nothing up here.
Oh no, you were hungover on your flight, huh?
Sorry.
Oh, so hungover, yeah, I blame you.
And not really.
I was already out, but you always intensify everything.
Thank you.
Yeah, yeah.
So I was flying there and I watched the first two because I have them on American right now
if you like in the favorite brain sizes.
I was like, do I go Harry Potter?
Do I go Twilight?
Because both are great rainy weather movies.
But yeah, Twilight's like in a place where all it does is like rain and there's no sun.
So I watched that and every night, like when I've been falling asleep here, I have been watching
a new Twilight movie.
And you know, some of the creative choices they made were so interesting.
Like, so they made like Edward Collins' face Robert Pattinson, like CGI'd in the first
one, like to the nine spray.
Like you could they you tell you're trying to make them look younger.
But then for all the other movies, they didn't do that.
But of course, like it takes a long time for them to make these movies.
Yeah.
And you're like, okay, well, like you aged him backwards five years for the first movie and then
you gave up and then it was five years later in the last one.
So it really made no sense to me.
But you know, there's kind of been like this Taylor Lautner resurgence.
And before rewatching all these movies, I was like, yeah, I wonder why you didn't get like,
you know, the Hollywood come up in and I was reminded why.
You mean him falling in love with a CGI baby?
Like didn't do it.
Renezme.
Yeah.
My favorite tick-tock trend is how they just keep calling Renezme like random things.
They're like rocket launcher.
Like, yeah.
Or like, rest mutant.
Rest mutant would have been a better name than Renezme.
If you're a listener and your name is Renezme, I want to talk to you.
I want to meet you.
I want to hang out with you.
Yeah.
Why did your parents say anything?
Yeah, we need to know.
What, how pissed would you be a parent?
So there's like a bunch of like, I saw this about Bama Rush tick-tock actually.
But people were like, why are there so many girls named Bella for Bama Rush this year?
And it came out like 18 years ago, the books, which made me feel real freaking old.
The first book came out.
And so everyone just started naming their kids Bella after that, which is a pretty name.
But then I was like, what if someone was like, I'm going to name her Renezme?
Because I'm so unique.
I'm not going to go Bella.
That's too basic.
I'm going to go Renezme.
Renezme for sure.
There are so many little girls that were being named Daenerys during the game of Thrones popularity.
And I wonder how they feel about their names at the end of the show.
Because Daenerys Targaryen is like a sick character until the very final episode of the show.
And then she kind of fucks it all up for the final like two episodes.
So your name is Daenerys and you're like, oh great.
I'm going to lose my mind. That's sick.
Yeah.
I mean, having a mad king for a father, probably not good.
Probably not good. Probably going to make you crazy too.
But, I don't know. You're the queen.
You're getting that John Snow dick like, "Cock down girl."
Come down.
Just kill Cersei and then call it a day. It's fine.
We're on such a tangent here right now.
Before you joined the podcast, Liv, I recently did like a Twilight binge because I had never seen them all.
I watched the first one when I was single like in college back in the day.
And then Andrew is a twi hard because of course he's fucking it.
He's my homie.
That's why he's my homie.
You two are like so similar.
That's why I love you both.
But he saw them all in theaters without me.
Yeah, that's so funny to call if you didn't know.
Andrew is a die hard swifty.
So our pressure is like of loving Taylor Swift is really coming in hot.
So yeah.
And other music tastes, but no one cares about that.
I'm a swifty now too. It happens.
Maybe not to the like the $100 on a concert ticket level, but like I feel I understand.
Speaking of other drama that have also been super interested in, I don't know if any of you guys saw this.
Scooter Braun, Taylor Swift's nemesis, the one that stole their masters.
Justin Bieber dropped him.
Amy Lovato dropped him.
Ariana Grande dropped him.
And there's some other ones that I can't remember off the top of my head.
And his team released a statement.
It basically said, well they're under contract.
So they're not going anywhere.
Was really like the sum of it.
And then I didn't realize this at the time, but he's the CEO of the company who creates all the K-pop groups.
But now he is the CEO of the Korean BTS.
Yeah. And so what they're trying to do is they're trying to bring boy bands to the US like they did with K-pop.
And I mean, if you know anything about K-pop, they massively abuse their artists.
They take advantage of them.
That's all those kids do.
They are just like plucked out, placed in a mall, put in costumes, and all they do.
They like live together. I watched.
I think it was the black pink documentary.
Yeah. And like all they do, their entire lives is just performing and being black pink and like living together.
It seems exhausting.
And they all want to go alone and like do solar work, but they're under contract.
So you know, I was thinking about it and I'm like, okay, Hollywood can overlook a lot of things.
People are like, oh, something really bad is about to come out.
I feel like the only time people in Hollywood overlook stuff like that is when it comes to money.
And so just kind of like a flashback Justin I think within this year sold his entire master's catalog for $200 million.
Which is a lot of money to you and I.
That is not a lot of money for Justin Bieber, like Jay-Z and Beyonce.
Why would he sell that?
Taylor has just gone through so much trouble of trying to like gain back control and re-releasing all of her albums and then Justin just sells his masters.
I don't know. There's something about to go down.
Like I saw that scooter bronze stuff. I was like, oh, it's brilliant.
Well, here's the frickin kicker. Here's the kicker.
And I was like, because I don't hate Hailey Baldwin at all.
I think both of Solina and Hailey are like, come on.
We're fighting over a man who looks like a like child all the time or I don't even know what he looks like anymore.
But don't fight over mediocre men. Just stop it.
Yes.
Nicole's probably like Justin Bieber is not mediocre.
So I saw in this article that she is taken over for Scooter Braun, Hailey Bieber.
And she hired Lou Taylor, Britney Spearsman.
What? Wait.
What?
It's very alleged. This is like in an article that came out like this week.
Apparently now they are working directly with Tricer Sports Entertainment, which is the one that put Britney into the conservatorship, helped Britney's dad get everything set up.
Yeah, like Lou Taylor is messed up.
And she is such a public like Vitriol.
I mean, she still has a lot of info. And she has a lot of really famous clients.
But I will be keeping my eye on that one.
Oh, I'm trusting.
And then that brings us all the way to the drama with our girl, Britney, who is a deforeuse.
Is anybody shocked? I don't know.
I don't think we're shocked.
Nicole, are you shocked at all?
I'm glad she got that prena.
I feel bad for her.
I am excited for the book though.
Oh, I am so excited for the book.
The minute this book comes out, we're going to read it so fucking fast so that we can talk about it on the podcast.
I don't know. I'm going to be a little controversial here and say, I get why I don't know.
Like I, everybody, I looked at Sam Asgaris Instagram and write his comments and everyone's like, how dare you leave Britney?
How dare you scum you did this to Britney?
I don't think that we get the whole picture that way.
I think that Britney is kind of in a hypersexualized state right now.
She obviously has something going on.
We don't see what's going on behind the scenes of their marriage in their real lives.
So to just call him just some villain just because we're all free Britney, I think it's kind of messed up.
Well, I would disagree.
I think people are villainizing him right now because he's like threatening to extort her.
Like he's like, Sam knows a lot.
He's trying to get money out of his prena, but his prena says that.
I read that that wasn't real.
I don't know though.
Like if he's extorting her, then that's messed up, obviously.
But if that's not the case, if people are just saying, oh, I heard Sam's going to extort.
I don't know.
I'm just going to be interested to see how this all shakes out.
And if Britney's going to come out squeaky, clean, you know?
Yeah, they didn't say it like he's threatening to release all this stuff.
It was just like, he's got a lot of stories that wouldn't necessarily put me in the best light.
I think it's very, very interesting.
Like you met her when she was probably at her lowest, at her worst depression, those things.
And so I think that's kind of like you knew who Britney was.
You knew the life she was in and what she was going through.
So I would recognize that it's very, very hard, but I think, you know, I just, I never got a good vibe from him.
And he was also hired by Lou Taylor to be her personal trainer.
So I just don't trust him.
No, he was it. Oh, my God.
It all comes.
Yeah, it goes all the way to the top.
So he's got very, very like team conservatorship like.
Yeah, he's got his, his hands in there for sure.
Ha shit.
Mm-hmm.
Man, maybe I just went a route for the guy because he's so fucking hot.
Oh, no, we never, we don't route for men on this hot hot.
I think he is.
I know, but,
I mean, a attractive man.
If I saw that man on the street, I want her to come out good in this.
Mm-hmm.
If I saw that man on the street, I'd be like, that's a hot man.
Okay.
Like in context of celebrity and being with the biggest pop star in the entire world.
Like,
not enough or having up with a personality or acting skills or anything.
Maybe it's the personality because he's good arm candy.
If we just want our girls to have a nice piece of arm candy who is in their 20s.
Yeah.
There you go.
Yeah.
But I didn't know the Lou Taylor thing.
That's a whole new layer of suspicion to everything I just said.
Now I can take it back.
It's a little sus.
Yeah.
I was rooting for you Sam.
Ha-sam.
Mm-hmm.
Ha-sam.
I was rooting for you, Ha-sam.
Yeah.
You were all rooting for you.
I would dare you.
Ha-ha-ha.
So I know I mentioned that I have a new job starting and with that new job I'm going to be traveling
a ton.
She's a spy.
Yeah.
Thanks.
Sorry I had to say it.
That's okay.
Color and adornous.
International woman of history.
Ha-ha-ha.
But with that, I thought about my hometown since I don't live there anymore and traveling back
there and just doing touristy things since I consider myself kind of a tourist back in my
hometown now.
And what I would do if I would bring my favorite celebrity to my hometown and I'm interested
to know one, who would be your celebrity person that you would bring into a day in your hometown.
All the activities you do and if there's like a reason why you would go to a certain place,
there's like a heartfelt meaning or just like any given reason why it's like significant
to the city you grew up in or whatnot.
But I'm just interested to see because then maybe if I go there for my traveling work,
I could go visit these places too.
And we can compile everything and share and then maybe we can all try to do somebody's
day someday.
Yeah, that'd be fun.
That'd be very expensive.
Mine would be very expensive.
But it would be fun.
Yeah.
Mine is 90% food consumption.
So.
I love that for you.
Okay.
Who wants to go first?
You can.
Let's go baby.
Me?
Okay.
Yes.
All right.
So I am spending my day with Lady Gaga.
Lady Gaga.
Gaga.
I think that she'd be really great.
Gaga.
Vicka Gaga.
She's going to have to dress like a normal person for the day so that we don't just get steam
rolled through paparazzi and fans all day.
She's mine.
Everybody back off.
This is my special day with Gaga.
All right.
I am from Phoenix, Arizona.
Born and raised.
Lifted you for 34 years.
I should probably get out a little bit more.
But I'm going to take Gaga through a beautiful day in Phoenix and it's surrounding metro
areas.
And we're going to do this in like late April.
Me and Lady Gaga are starting the day at the Canal Club in Scottsdale.
It's just amazing like Cuban inspired restaurants that you can sit outside on the patio and get
these drinks with flowers in them.
Lots of aesthetically pleasing spots for all of the Instagram.
It is the Instagram place.
Yeah.
It literally is.
My friend who's an influencer was like, so I planned our trip and we're going to go here.
It was like right when it opened and I was like, I haven't even heard of that.
And it is the most Instagramable place.
Oh my god.
I'm just going to go back to the pool.
It's lunchtime now after we've been lounging at the pool for a couple hours.
It's definitely not like a super fancy place.
It is family owned.
I'm just going to go back to the pool.
I started at the beginning of quarantine.
I could keep this going.
I could do home workouts.
I could get day drunk in the inflatable pool in my backyard.
After that, we're full.
We think it's time to go out.
It is Saturday night.
The feeling is right.
Let's do this.
We are going to start with a fancy cocktail at fuck you pay me.
Which is in downtown Phoenix.
And yes, that is the name of the bar.
It is this little speak easy in the back of a restaurant.
You walk in.
They give you a welcome shot, a welcome cocktail, and a snack.
And the whole thing is like black and neon pink and just super modern music playing.
We're going to take a lot of pictures in there too.
Just being fabulous.
Big pink fake lips with Gaga.
Now we're ready to really get the night started.
Slash ended.
We are going to go to Phoenix's gay clubs.
We're going to go to Charlie's.
We're going to go to Cruz in seventh.
We're going to go to the rock and we are just going to dance our asses off.
Probably listening to Gaga music all night.
Would you share Lady Gaga with the gays?
Would you be willing to share her?
Or are you going to make her like go full disguise?
Where if it knows?
I think at this point I have to share Gaga with the gays.
You can't just hoard Gaga at the gay club.
We're listening to Gaga and I'm there with Gaga.
And I'm going to be like, "Hey guy, you mean Samantha?
Don't you love this song?"
By Lady Gaga?
Yeah, no.
You have to tell them.
If you don't, it's homophobic.
[laughter]
It is a hate crime if I don't share Gaga with the gays.
And so that's what we're finishing the night off.
But you cannot come in if you just hear, "Oh, I heard Gaga was at the gay club, so let's go see her."
No.
You have to be like there.
And then you can't just come in and I don't take advantage of her real name.
Yeah, you have to know her real name at the door.
Who's the lister you want?
Stephanie?
Okay, you can come in.
Oh, Shauna and Stephanie?
Yeah, all right.
And that is my day consuming way too many calories with Lady Gaga and Phoenix.
Nothing historical, nothing cultural.
Oh, Stephanie's tap.
Oh, she's paying for all of this.
I have to fucking lootly.
I can't afford any of this.
Yeah, she's got that.
I'm out at the end of the night.
She's got that migraine medicine money now.
She's really like going into it.
I know.
I need to sponsor that too.
I'll be like, Gaga, I will buy the margaritas in the Styrofoam cups and that is about it.
Okay, Nicole, you go now.
Who are you taking out?
Where are you going?
Okay, I am going to take Billie Eilish.
I know it's going to be super hard to disguise her.
That's okay, we're just going to act like she doesn't have a-
It's the spake universe where I can disguise Lady Gaga.
Exactly.
And we're just going to act like that for the sake of this whole experience that she eats regular food.
What is she?
What is she doing?
Oh, she's vegan.
Gonna be hard in Chicago.
Yeah.
Very hard to find vegan in Chicago.
She likes hot dogs and deep dish pepperoni pizza.
Exactly.
So if it's like this, we're going to act like she eats non-vegan food.
It's fine.
Yes, I grew up in Chicago.
So we're going to start out with the little area I grew up in Chicago, which we call Garfield
Ryd, which is literally right next to Midway Airport.
We're going to get breakfast at this old mom and pop breakfast place called Three Sons.
It has such good breakfast food.
Breakfast is my favorite meal of the day.
So we're never skipping that.
Love it.
We get that after we eat breakfast, we're going to jump on the orange line, which is the
train that will take you downtown from the Midway Airport.
And it's the L. We call it the L. It's like an elevated train.
That's why it's called the L.
Second fall.
You're spelled out in a week.
And then we get down to downtown Chicago.
We're going to go to the Starbucks Roastery for a coffee and explore the multiple levels.
We don't know what that is.
It's just a multiple level Starbucks at each level.
There's a different type of experience.
They have alcohol there and stuff, but me and Billy aren't going to drink quite yet.
Yeah.
She's not an alcohol or China.
You know, me and Gaga were drunk from 9 a.m. until bus two a.m.
Up, another club.
Bus, club.
No, sleep.
And then after we get our coffee, fix, we will visit the John Hancock building and 360
Chicago observation deck, which is this glass thing that you stand on.
And then it literally dips you like forward over the city.
It's a wonderful place.
It's so wonderful.
It's so scary.
I want to do it.
Yeah.
I do have to do it.
So of course, we're going to do it.
After that, we're going to make our way down to I still call it the Sears Tower because
I'm a G, but it's now known as Willis Tower.
We're not calling it Willie.
No Willie here.
No.
But for being correct, we will call it Willis Tower and go to the Sky Deck, which is like
this last box that really hangs off the tower that you stand in.
You're just dangling Billy.
Yeah.
The car, we in adrenaline junkie.
Am I just learning this about you?
That jump off of the Sears Tower after this.
When I was younger, I used to be able to go into that sky box.
Like so easy was never afraid.
And then like the second I turned 16, I like went to Chicago to visit my family as well.
And I stepped out there and I have never felt that real fear in my entire life.
It's because the older you get, the more aware of your mortality you become.
Like I used to be able to hang off the back of my aunt and uncles.
Speedboat.
I could enter to the back of their speedboat, no problem.
And then I got older and I was like, but what if I die?
So yeah, no, it's because you're closer to death Olivia.
Yeah.
And I think things just like hurt a lot more, you know?
Where you're like, like as a kid you fall down, you're like, I'm fine.
And then like as an adult, you fall down, you're like rough around the edges for like a
month or two.
I'm going to feel that for a while now.
Okay, but you and Billy Eilish are young and full of dreams.
So what are you doing next?
We're suspended in the air with our love.
After that, we're working up an appetite.
So we're going to go to lunch at this place called the Weiner Circle.
We're going to make some Weiner.
A hot dog stand.
I see the Weiner Circle in college all the time.
Yeah, probably a different one, but it's okay.
But here they're super rude to you.
Oh, no.
It's so funny though.
Like they're supposed to be rude to you.
And the one rule, do not ask for ketchup.
You'd probably get kicked out like literally no joke.
Just mustard and run this baby.
Just for ketchup on your hot dog, you're going to get kicked out.
I don't even know if they have ketchup at the establishment.
So I like really.
Like a big pickle on like Chicago style, right?
Yes.
So we're going to go there.
Have some lunch.
You need a good Chicago dog.
And obviously those aren't vegan.
So again, she's not vegan for this video.
I'm so sorry, Billy.
She's take one for the team.
And then take that hot dog for the team.
Well, we'll do all the consequences later.
They have really good hospitals down in Chicago.
So we'll just take it over.
After that, we'll come back into the city and go to Navy Pier.
And we'll ride one of the speed boats, speaking of speed boats.
Speed boat.
That goes real fast.
We'll ride one of the speed boats.
And then after this speed boat, we're going to do a boat tour around the city at Navy Pier.
You have so much for new activities in yours.
Mine was like just getting drunk and eating.
That's what you do on a daily basis, though.
What do I do on the weekend?
That is what I do.
I just.
And I go to school.
I consume so much food.
I like doing the touristy stuff.
Yeah.
Chicago is so much fun stuff, too.
It does.
Yeah, there's so much stuff to do.
After that, we're going to go to the famous art institute that was shown on Ferris Bueller's
Day Off.
Mm-hmm.
And zoom into that painting like they do in movie.
Yes.
And then after that, we're going to make our way over to the Shed Aquarium and see the little
fishies because I love our Shed Aquarium in Chicago.
So much fun.
And then at this time, it's getting dark out.
It's becoming nighttime.
You know what?
Even though I'm a white socks fan, at this time, I'm taking one for the team and I'm taking
her to Wrigley Field because I'm a static stadium.
You got to.
But you know what?
The white socks and cups are playing because she needs to see some good brawls.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
A real Chicago vendetta.
That's authentic.
Yes.
That's authentic.
Yes.
But they're playing it Wrigley because Wrigley is just too good of a stadium to pass up to
see if a game at so.
Yeah.
We're going there.
After that though, we're going to go grow some deep dish pizza at Gerdaunos because Gerdaunos
is my favorite deep dish pizza place.
It's so good.
Yes.
Then you have multiple, multiple deep dish pizza places but Gerdaunos is my favorite.
It's what I grew up on.
So we're going to introduce you to that.
What's your order for a deep dish?
Yeah.
You're going pap or you're going sausage?
Literally just cheese.
Oh.
No, I dig.
Just cheese.
Oh.
I'm playing.
I'm basic.
I don't know if I've ever done just cheese, deep dish.
Oh, that's so good.
I've been to Chicago a handful of times when we had to go to Gerdaunos.
Am I saying right?
Gerdaunos.
Once.
And I think we got the pepperoni.
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
Gerdaunos.
I don't know.
For deep dish, I'm just like just cheese.
I feel like the meat would marinate for me per cheese pie.
Cheese pie, please.
I'm afraid.
My two favorite things.
I only got a few more places we're going because it's getting super dark out.
But for dessert, we're going to go over to the famous rainbow cone, which is an ice cream
place that serves up ice cream that consists of orange sherbet, pistachio, Palmer House,
strawberry and chocolate.
Oh, on a cone.
Rainbow sherbet.
I love rainbow.
I love rainbow sherbet too.
So good.
Oh, my God.
It's so good.
It's all my favorite ice cream flavor.
It makes me love that.
I'm very surprised.
It makes me love that.
It makes me so good.
It makes me love that.
I'm very surprised.
Which we call LSD, which we all make fun of in Chicago because LSD, haha.
And we're going to see.
And then you're going to do some LSD.
Do some LSD down LSD.
Yep.
And see the Chicago skyline laid up because it's the most beautiful skyline at nighttime, all
bit up on the beach.
It's right on the beach.
So we're going to hang out there for a little bit to the skyline.
And then the end of the night off on a little spooky note.
We're going to go back to my side of town and go to one of the most haunted spots in
the state of Resurrection Mary and try to find some ghosts.
I love those stories.
This is several romantic and spooky.
I feel like you guys are going to fall in love at the end of your.
Oh, I hope we do.
And then she'll have to go to Coachella, probably the next day in Grant Park downtown.
So.
So just stay there.
Mine.
Yeah.
There you go.
And you know what happens happens.
It's fine.
Exactly.
Whenever you said the ghost hunting thing, it reminded me of Demi Lovato doing that ghost
hunting show in 2020 where she like is singing.
What is it?
A skyscraper to the ghost so they can pass on.
It is one of the funniest things ever.
Yeah.
Demi Lovato singing to ghost.
It'll pop right up.
But it is so good.
I've never seen that.
Demi Lovato is such a mess and I love her.
Yes.
Yes, we're praying for you, Gurley.
So this was actually really, really exciting when we discussed doing this because you know,
if you've kind of heard me talk a group in a lot of different places, but I think A+ all
around.
I think you both represented your hometown cities in a great way.
And I'm going all these places next time.
We're going to do a little pop culture tour.
But you know, I do consider myself to be from Austin when I lived in Chicago.
I was really, really little, but I consider Austin my hometown.
And so probably shocker to no one.
I am going to pick my girl Taylor Swift and I'm going to hopefully make her also fall in
love with me.
You know, maybe even if it's just a friendship.
Or I'll just get to fall in love with these gorgeous rich women.
I love this.
This gorgeous pop stars.
Yeah, absolutely.
And so the first thing that we are really starting out with is going to be on like Travis.
We're going to go a few different places.
But in the adrenaline junky tone, like Nicole, one of my favorite places I would go during
the summers when I lived in Austin was on like Travis.
It's just place called Tom's Thumb.
And it has a few different levels, but it's meant for cliff jumping.
And so it's like one of those moments where like every time I go to Austin, like I just
think about those summers and so very fun.
And that area is kind of where the keep Austin weird slow go comes from.
So I think it's called hippies, cove or whatever, but it's like a nude cove on like Travis.
Wait, you naked cliff jumping?
No, you don't have to do it there, but it's like a stone throw away.
But you know, like Travis is fun.
You got some cool.
But you Taylor should jump naked.
Yeah.
You should do it naked.
Yeah.
I mean, if you've been like, she's so ripped right now.
I'm like, man, I can't even imagine how good you look.
I digress.
Okay.
So we're going to spend some cliff jumping at Tom Thumb.
And then we're going to make our way down town to Austin.
So the main places that I wanted to go were really going to be rainy streets.
So there's a bunch of different neighborhoods in Austin.
There's like East Austin, West Austin, rainy.
And the one that most people are familiar with are like the six street bars, but we're going
to go to Banger's sausage house and beer garden.
It's so good.
All the dogs, it's very like Austin vibe.
And they're about like, I don't have been back in a while, but they're about like 10 to 20
really, really cool bars on this road.
And it's called rainy street.
And you know, it's just a good day drinking place.
They do a lot of live music because Austin is the live music capital of the world.
And so I want to go to Austin so bad.
Yeah.
Well, now we have an actinery.
We can do it.
Yeah.
So after we've gotten a little sufficiently drunk, we're going to go drunk shopping and thrifting
on South Congress Avenue.
So a lot of the places that we're going to go in a second are like the iconic imagery
that you will see inside Austin.
So all the really cool trendy stores that people talk about are on South Congress.
And so if you know anything about me, I have a shopping addiction.
And I will tear it up.
Maybe our girl, Ms. Swift, will fund by endeavors.
But you really can't be the--
Open this scenario.
In all of our scenarios, they pay.
Yes, they pay.
And also, we're going to have to really suspend our disbelief that there are not 12 bodyguards
around Taylor Swift at any time.
Okay, no, she's in disguise too.
She's in disguise too.
Yeah.
Yeah, I almost didn't pick her because I was like, couldn't go anywhere.
Or in Austin.
You right?
No.
Yeah, but then the next one, kind of in the similar vein to Shauna, is we are going to go
to Zilker Park and check it out.
It's actually where they host the Austin City Limits Music Festival each year.
But they have this part where it's called Barton Springs Pool.
So it's a natural, you know, kind of spring fed swimming pool.
But in the summer, like everyone goes there, it's very much like a communal place.
Like, if you were to go to the beach fun in Southern California.
So that is ultimately what we would do going in tonight.
I got to take her to the one and only Emo's Music Venue when I was a little seen kid.
It's called Emo's?
Yep.
Yeah, it's really, it's like one of the most iconic venues out there.
It's been around for a really, really long time.
When I was a little seen kid in like Emo, I would try to mosh.
I like 13 years old in that place.
So, so, so, so, so, I don't think it's still around.
I used to go to this metal club called Red Seven.
And you know, it makes sense.
They're no longer open.
But because you were what 13 years?
Yeah, yeah, right.
You're like, why were you allowing me in this place?
And so, you know, that would ultimately be my little tour.
It was food on my side, but yeah, I, it was fun to kind of go through and be like, what,
what do I love to do there?
No, man, this makes me want to travel so bad.
I've been to Chicago and I loved it there.
I dying to go to Austin.
So that's definitely next to my list.
But at least the Arizona stuff we could, we could probably hit a couple of those pretty
easily.
Yeah, less travel.
Yeah, yeah.
This was fun.
Well, if Billy and Gaga and Taylor are listening, we have the perfect way to go.
Perfect dates, girls.
I mean, days out, not dates, not dates, unless you want it unless.
Let me love you.
We would ever float your boat.
There's people saying no.
You would ever float you really fast boat.
I want to almost like think of this as like the bachelor wherever they have the hometown
visits.
It's like, okay, who put on the best hometown visit out of us, but we all the different
people.
So it doesn't work as well.
No, but I think they all sound equally fun.
So good job, everybody.
They do.
No, I want a hot dog real bad.
I want a hot dog real bad.
Makes me want a hot dog real bad.
All right.
Well, I think that about wraps up this episode of the Pop Culture Junkie Podcast.
But before we pack our bags to go home, Olivia and Shauna, where can the listeners find
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